Episode #083 ... Henry David Thoreau

Today we talk more about Peter Sloterdijk’s book You Must Change Your Life. We talk about Heidegger, the subject-object view of the world, how environments form us, symbolic immunity, modern cynicism, vertical tension, base camps, civilizations as collective immune systems, and w ...  Show more

Today we talk about half of the book You Must Change Your Life by Peter Sloterdijk. From criticism towards views of change that he thinks are far too centered on belief and moral strength, to a reworking of how to view human beings at the level of anthropology. We talk about how ...  Show more

Thanks so much for listening! Here’s the book I mentioned in today’s episode:The Eight Master Lessons of Nature: What Nature Teaches Us About Living Well in the World https://g.co/kgs/49u53wAnd here’s Gwendolyn Brooks’ amazing poem for Paul Robeson.Paul Robeson by Gwendolyn Brook ...  Show more

"The soldier is applauded who refuses to serve in an unjust war by those who do not refuse to sustain the unjust government which makes the war." Henry David Thoreau

RESOURCES: <a href="https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/uprising1313/files/2017/10/Civil-Disobedi ...

Rajan Datar and guests explore the life and legacy of the American thinker Henry David Thoreau and his famous work 'Walden', which describes the young writer's experiment in living simply at Walden Pond in Massachusetts, for two years, two months and two days in the 1840s. A land ...  Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 19th century American writer and philosopher, Henry David Thoreau. Anti-slavery activist and passionate environmentalist, Thoreau was above all a champion of self-reliance and individualism. He was also a champion of the simple life, a lover of ...  Show more